Can Your iPhone Really Be Used to Create a TV News Broadcast Worthy Story?

TV news once provided
terrific jobs for photographers, producers and reporters.Pink slips have been raining in newsrooms all
over the world.Newspapers were limited
to putting words and pictures on pulp newsprint and even that was difficult and
expensive.

The sheer competition has dramatically reduced the revenue that feeds news providers and their workers. Now they all are
scrambling to stay in business, keep roofs over their heads and food on their tables.

Newspaper and television executives are slowly
learning that putting their content on the Internet is the only way to
survive.Suddenly anyone who can write,
shot still pictures and much better yet video can compete with the incredible shrinking big boys of television.

With these changes newspapers
have actually bagged some Emmy Awards for their video stories! So-called newspaper reporting has changed forever. Today we all carry a
sophisticated HD TV camera in our pockets that for most people goes
unused.Anyone can be trained to create
a very watchable TV news story with the iPhone complete with voice-overs.

The issue after training is
equipment and its cost.Editing can be
done on any computer or iPad however the iPhone can do that too in a pinch. Lack of money is really no bar to telling a story via video any more.

The iPhone does lave its
limitations with lenses and microphones but it seems everyday there are new
hardware and software fixes being offered.

Michael Rosenblum of the New
York Video School is the iPhone electronic newsgathering Guru.Rosenblum, a former TV news director
instructs reporters in the US and numerous other countries how to maximize the
iPhone for story telling.He’s helping
news organizations to survive and roll with the technology changes.

Rosenblum also teaches
students the proper use of the less expensive prosumer cameras, lights,
microphones and editing techniques. I
prefer using the prosumer gear and I’ve been experimenting with those
incredible new GoPro cameras too.

A real and undinable
advantage of the iPhone is that it is easily transported and very
stealthy.Security people that never
think twice about iPhones constantly kick news photographers off property.

If you are skeptical that an
iPhone can do a TV news story look at the video below.This was shot completely on an iPhone.The audio is not perfect in a couple of
places but no words are lost.The
finished product is truly amazing.